The Moon Lab: Workshops

Poetry Therapy

For those who love to write, or simply for anyone who feels drawn to journaling or creative writing for self-growth, I host writing for wellbeing workshops. Using various forms, including poetry, as a way to tune in and use the page to explore, process and heal your inner world.

Dream Work

Either working on a 1:1 basis or within a workshop setting, learn how to use your dreams for self-growth. I teach ways to use lucid dreaming, and different sleep states, to support and improve your wellbeing. The lucid state is a refined and powerful state of consciousness you can harness while you sleep.

Mindfulness

I offer 1:1, group + corporate mindfulness sessions. Mindfulness is a compelling approach for reducing stress, anxiety, anger, substance abuse and trauma. Research shows that meditation results in significant physical and mental health benefits after as little as eight weeks of daily practice.

Neuro Scribbly (Monthly): Welcome to the Unmasked Pages

Sundays: 6 Sept | 11 Oct | 15 Nov | 13 Dec | 4-6pm (BST) £25

[October Event Has been Cancelled]

A monthly writing for wellbeing space for the neurodivergent community, and open to all.

Spend two hours engaging in gentle writing prompts and journalling activities. I’ll also share a poem, piece of writing or image/photography in each session for us to explore.

The format:

• The first hour includes a short introduction, a warm-up writing prompt, and a shared poem. We’ll explore our emotional responses to it rather than literary analysis.
• After a short 5-minute break, the final 55 minutes will offer a range of journalling prompts, with space to write, reflect, and (if you wish) share and explore what’s arisen.

I’m hoping this will become a monthly group. This first session is a chance to begin and see what unfolds.

Two free spaces are available for unwaged individuals. Please email for details.

Come as you are…

• Keep your camera off if that feels more comfortable
• No expectation to share anything you write
• You’re free to step away or leave early if needed (prompts can be sent after)
• Take breaks whenever your body or attention needs them
• Come as you are – fidgeting, moving, doodling, lying down all welcome
• Gentle, flexible pacing (nothing timed too tightly)
• You can engage in your own way – writing, thinking, or simply being there

Head to Eventbrite via monthly links below to book, or email (no booking fee).

October: Neuro Scribbly Booking Link

November: Neuro Scribbly Booking Link

December: Neuro Scribbly Booking Link

Winter Solstice Eve: Writing for Wellbeing

Twinkles in the Coal Pile

Sunday, 20 December 2026 | 3-5pm (GMT) £30
Online via Zoom | £30

An online Winter Solstice writing for wellbeing workshop. This is the sixth year running I’ve held this particular workshop, and it’s one of my favourites.

It’s held on the eve of the Winter Solstice (a Sunday so more people can hopefully join). Spend two gentle hours of poetry, journalling and reflection with me, as we arrive at the darkest point of the year.

The Winter Solstice marks a threshold – the longest night, the turning of the year and the beginning of the return towards light. This workshop offers a quieter space to notice what has been, what you are currently sitting with in the darkness, as well as the small glimmers that can sometimes be found amongst the darker or more difficult parts of your experience.

We’ll use poetry, imagery and a series of creative writing and journalling prompts to explore contrast: darkness and light, difficulty and delight, endings and beginnings, what we might leave behind and what we want to carry with us into the returning light.
This is writing for wellbeing rather than a creative-writing class. There is no pressure to produce polished work and no previous writing experience is needed. You can write privately throughout, or share something with the group if you would like to.

During our two hours together, we’ll explore:

• a gentle arrival and Solstice-themed warm-up
• a shared poem and personal, experiential response to it
• guided journalling and creative writing prompts
• darkness, light and the unexpected things that can coexist
• what the past year has held, without forcing it into a neat “year in review”
• the first stirrings of what you might want to welcome as the light begins to return
• time to reflect and, entirely optionally, share.

Bring a journal or paper, something to write with and perhaps a candle, blanket and favourite winter drink.

Facilitated by Leah Larwood MA, UKCP, CPT
Relational Gestalt Psychotherapist & Certified Poetry Therapist

Head to Eventbrite or email (no booking fee).

After the Clock Strikes:

A New Year Poetry Therapy & Journalling Workshop

Sunday, 3 January 2027 | 3-5pm (GMT) £30
Online via Zoom | £30

An alternative to New Year’s resolutions…

Once the clock has struck midnight, there sometimes arrives a pressure to become a shiny new version of yourself. But what if you approached the New Year differently?
After the Clock Strikes is a two-hour poetry therapy and journalling workshop offering a gentler, more reflective way to cross the threshold into a new year. Rather than making a list of resolutions to fix, improve or reinvent yourself, we’ll use poetry, therapeutic writing and guided reflection to listen more to what you actually want and need.

We’ll begin by looking back, noticing the highs and lows of the year just gone, the ways you’ve grown or adapted, and what the year may have taught you. Through poetry and reflective writing, we’ll consider what you’re carrying with you and what you might finally be ready to put down.

Then we’ll turn towards the year ahead. Instead of conventional resolutions, we’ll explore aspirations, intentions and sankalpas, positive statements rooted in a deeper sense of how you want to live and feel. You’ll be invited to consider what you’d like more of, what you want to make space for, and what might happen if you listened to your own needs rather than January’s familiar chorus of shoulds.

The workshop combines carefully chosen poems with journalling prompts, therapeutic writing exercises and gentle opportunities for reflection and discussion. There will also be a simple New Year ritual to help you carry your intentions beyond the workshop.
This is not a creative writing class. There is no pressure to produce polished writing and you don’t need to think of yourself as a writer. The emphasis is on using words as a way of exploring yourself, making discoveries and creating new awareness. Sharing is always optional.

During the workshop, we’ll explore:

• the highs, lows and unexpected gifts of the year gone by
• what you’ve been carrying and what you might be ready to leave behind
• poetry as a springboard for personal reflection
• journalling to reconnect with your own needs and desires
• aspirations for the year ahead, both large and small
• sankalpas as an alternative to traditional New Year’s resolutions
• creating positive, present-tense intentions that feel personally meaningful
• a simple ritual for taking your reflections into the year ahead.

Bring a journal or notebook, something to write with and perhaps your favourite Sunday-afternoon drink.

No previous writing experience is needed.
Sunday 3 January 2027 | 3–5pm GMT
Online via Zoom | £30

Head to Eventbrite or email (no booking fee).

Winter the Spring of Genius

A Poetry Therapy & Journalling Workshop Series

An Online Writing Course for Self-Discovery and Wellness

Starts Sunday 31 January 2027 until Sunday 28 February 2027 (for 5 weeks)
3pm until 4.30pm (GMT)
Cost: £100 (early bird, before 1 January) and £125 when booked after 1 January.

This 5-week writing for wellbeing series, offers a safe and creative space to harness the season’s wild and still nature, in all its magnificent messiness and seeming harshness. Discovering what you can learn about yourself in winter, through poetry and other writing exercises, this course is about finding the twinkles in the coal pile: Understanding how you feel about winter, what you’re grateful for, how you can embrace it, and, survive and thrive the rest of the winter.

Week 1: Understanding where you are in winter

Exploring self in winter – cultivating awareness, self-reflection and understanding of where you are and how you feel about winter. Starting to understand or deepening your understanding around your needs in winter and anything that holds you back. Understand what doesn’t ring true with what you need.

Week 2: An ode to winter – What are you grateful for?

Finding the twinkles in the coal pile: Looking for those ‘twinkles’ in your day-to-day: Voicing what you are grateful for and becoming more aware of how you can work with the season.

Week 3: Leaning into the dark to find the light

The hidden wild beauty of your inner winter: In week 2 we looked at the visible twinkles in the coal pile but what about the diamonds that are hidden deeper underground? Exploring what it feels like to harness winter and tap into the still and wild beauty of the season, working with and even going deeper into the darkness – what treasures can be found there underneath the surface?

WEEK 4 – Embracing darkness and stillness

Embracing what can’t be changed: Exploring those things that cannot be changed and working with being with ‘what is’. Understanding the benefits of embracing the stillness and exploring how you might embrace it in a new way.

Week 5: The alchemy of winter

Emerging from the season anew: In working with winter, there can be a process of alchemy – which moves from identifying and witnessing both the struggles and the twinkles, and on occasion, going deeper, before cultivating acceptance and understanding impermanence. Once we’ve done that, we might feel ready to look forward, to create aspirations, intentions, hopes and gentle goals, to see us through the rest of the season and into spring.

Head to Eventbrite or email (no booking fee).

Intro to Dream Work

Thursday 11 February 2027 | 6-8pm (BST) (£45)
An interactive CPD workshop for therapists and counsellors.

Curious about how ‘dream work’ can deepen therapeutic work?

A practical and experiential online CPD workshop for psychotherapists and counsellors.
Dreams can bring into the therapy room material that is vivid, strange, emotionally charged and sometimes difficult to know what to do with. How can we work with dreams therapeutically without reducing them to fixed interpretations or trying to decide what they mean?

This two-hour introductory CPD workshop explores gestalt approaches to dreamwork, offering therapists a practical and experiential introduction to bringing clients’ dreams into therapeutic practice.

Rather than interpreting a dream for the dreamer, gestalt dreamwork invites curiosity about the dream as an expression of the person’s own experience. We’ll explore ways of helping clients encounter different elements of a dream, experiment with perspective and dialogue, and discover what emerges through the process.

The workshop combines accessible theory with demonstrations, discussion and experiential exercises, giving you an opportunity to experience some of the methods yourself before considering how they might be used with clients.

During the workshop we’ll explore:

• the place and potential of dreams within therapeutic work
• an introduction to gestalt perspectives on dreams and dreamwork
• moving away from interpretation towards curiosity, exploration and experience
• working with different characters, objects, places and elements within a dream
• experimenting with first-person identification and giving voice to aspects of the dream
• dialogue and other experiential approaches to helping a dream unfold
• attending to imagery, emotion, embodiment and what emerges in the here-and-now
• practical considerations when introducing dreamwork with clients
• opportunities to experience, discuss and reflect on the approaches explored.

You don’t need any previous experience of working with dreams. The workshop is intended as an introduction for practising psychotherapists and counsellors who are curious about incorporating dreamwork into their existing therapeutic practice.
There will be opportunities for experiential participation and discussion, but you will always have choice around what you share.

Thursday 11 February 2027 | 6–8pm GMT
Online via Zoom | £45
2 hours CPD | Certificate available

Facilitated by Leah Larwood MA, UKCP, CPT
Relational Gestalt Psychotherapist & Certified Poetry Therapist

Head to Eventbrite to book, or email (no booking fee).

Intro to Poetry Therapy

Thursday 18 March 2027 | 6.30 – 8.30pm (GMT) (£45) [EARLY BIRD: £35]
An interactive CPD workshop for therapists, counsellors, social workers and educators.

Curious about how poetry can deepen therapeutic work?

This engaging two-hour online workshop offers an introduction to the growing field of poetry therapy and therapeutic writing. Whether you’re completely new to the approach or already use journalling or creative exercises with clients, you’ll discover practical, relational ways of incorporating poetry into your work.

Together we’ll explore how carefully chosen poems, reflective writing and guided discussion can foster awareness, insight, self-compassion and meaningful therapeutic dialogue. You’ll also gain an overview of the different approaches to writing for wellbeing, including expressive writing, journalling, bibliotherapy and poetry therapy, and consider when and how these methods may be appropriate within clinical practice.

During the workshop you’ll:

• Discover what poetry therapy is and how it differs from expressive writing and bibliotherapy.
• Learn the core principles behind therapeutic writing and poetry therapy.
• Explore the benefits of using poems in therapeutic settings.
• Understand how to select poems with therapeutic value.
• Experience a range of reflective writing exercises for yourself.
• Consider how poetry might be integrated ethically and sensitively into one-to-one or group work.
• Leave with practical ideas, recommended resources and renewed inspiration for your own practice.
• This workshop is experiential rather than literary. No previous experience of reading or writing poetry is required, and you won’t be expected to share anything you’ve written unless you choose to. The emphasis is on curiosity, reflection and discovering another creative doorway into therapeutic practice.
  
  Who is it for?
• Counsellors
• Psychotherapists
• Social workers
• Mental health professionals
• Coaches
• Educators
• Students and trainees interested in creative therapeutic approaches
  
  Facilitated by Leah Larwood MA, UKCP, CPT
  Leah is a Relational Gestalt Psychotherapist, Certified Poetry Therapist and published poet. She specialises in integrating poetry, creativity and relational psychotherapy to support emotional growth, self-awareness and healing.

Head to Eventbrite to book, or email (no booking fee).